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    Quintus Saturnus The Time of Five Emperors
    Quintus Saturnus The Time of Five Emperors
    Quintus Saturnus The Time of Five Emperors
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    Quintus Saturnus The Time of Five Emperors

    By Justin Cahill

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    Amidst the chaos of Rome's civil wars, Quintus Saturnus the mason works hard to produce busts for the Imperial Cult. But constant regime change makes getting paid difficult. Inspired by Robert Grave’s I Claudius and Gore Vidal’s Julian, this is an account of how one man negotiated the anarchy of 68-69AD - the Time of Five Emperors.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin Cahill
    Release dateJan 22, 2015
    ISBN9781310443718
    Quintus Saturnus The Time of Five Emperors
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    Justin Cahill

    Welcome to my Smashwords profile.I am a New Zealand-born writer, based in Sydney. My main interests are nature and history.My thesis was on the negotiations between the British and Chinese governments over the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. It was used as a source in Dr John Wong’s Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, the standard work on that conflict.I wrote a column on the natural history of the Wolli Creek Valley for the Earlwood News (sadly, now defunct) between 1992 and 1998.My short biography of the leading Australian ornithologist, Alfred North (1855-1917), was published in 1998.I write regular reviews on books about history for my blog,’ Justin Cahill Reviews’ and Booktopia. I’m also a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald's 'Heckler' column.My current projects include completing the first history of European settlement in Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people and a study of the extinction of Sydney’s native birds.After much thought, I decided to make my work available on Smashwords. Australia and New Zealand both have reasonably healthy print publishing industries. But, like it or not, the future lies with digital publishing.So I’m grateful to Mark Coker for having the vision to establish Smashwords and for the opportunity to distribute my work on it.

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    Quintus Saturnus The Time of Five Emperors - Justin Cahill

    Quintus Saturnus

    The Time of Five Emperors

    By Justin Cahill

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2015 Justin Cahill

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    Cover: Roman period First Century AD marble grave stele found at Samsun in Turkey and inscribed "Know ye that death is right beside all mortals", now in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum (Inventory 1122 T, Mendel Catalogue 888).

    Introduction

    The recent discovery and transcription, in Latin, of a manuscript found in the Library of Congress relating to Quintus Saturnus, a mason resident in first century Rome, has provoked much academic, and some popular, interest.

    Collected by Thomas Jefferson, it was bequeathed by him, along with other papers, to the Library. On receipt, it was misfiled under the label ‘Masonic Memoirs’, rather than its correct title Memoirs of a Mason, a direct result of the somewhat halting Latin in which it was composed.

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